There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
JAMES JOYCEAnd then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
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His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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